Cigar and method of blending the same.



'H..A. BUCK. CIGAR AND METHOD OF BLENDING THE SAME.

' APPLICATION FILED 1AAY25,|916- Patented Apr. 24, 1917.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MILFORD, CONNECTICUT.

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I pp cation filed May 25,

To all'whom it mag concern.- o

Be it known thatI, HENRY An'ron Boon, a citizenof the UnitedjStates of America, and a. resident ofMilford, county 'ofNew Haven, State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements .in

the Same,

of which the following is a speci cation.

This invention has reference to improvements in cigars and'the method of blending. thesame. Q f v Cigars usually found in the market con tain a filler,'a binderand a wrapper. The filler generally consists of one kind of tobacco of various qualities' according to the price of the cigar. v 0 It has been foundjthat cigars, especially those of the middle grades are not as agreeable a smoke and: do notburn as nicelly1 as desired if the filler is composed of one "11d of tobacco. In order to obtain the maximum of odor and flavor of a cigar it is desirable to mix various kinds of tobacco for the filler or as it is called toblend the same.

Itis a. difficult matter, in the ordinary course of mamufacturing cigars, to thoroughly mix or blend thevarious. kinds of tobacco,-on account of the similarity of the leaves, and the operator cannot be relied upon when the leaves are mixed in bulk to get therequired blend in every. bunch. Under the old styleor method of making cigars the various kinds of tobacco, constituting the blend, for the. respective cigars to be made'were mostly or invariably mixed in bulk and to give a cigar maker more than three or four different kinds of tobacco to be put into one cigar makes it awkward for him to work. Further it occasionally happens that the various leaves are too. close y pressed together in using this method which thus endangers the free drawing of the cigar. y

" The described deficiencies are avoided in the novel method of blending cigars and in the resulting product The novel method enables the o erator to thoroughly blend and kids of tobacco in such a way that they are evenly; and uniformly distributed in onecigar whereby the burning of the same and th'taste and aroma as well asits smoking-quality are greatly improved.

By arranging the various kinds, of tobacco and bring ng them together according to. my new and improved method of blending a better and. more uniform burning or combusv Specification of Letters Patent.

' a'plurality of litt Patented Apr. 24, 1917 1916. Serial no. 99,7215.

tion is efl'ected 'and a better cigar obtained with improved taste, flavor and aroma. This has been primarily attained by producing separately individual little rolls of each kind of tobacco which may be made by different o erators and uniting a plurality of the var1ous little rolls by means of a binder into a so called bunch which then is covered by a wrapper in the usual manner to complete the cigar.

each individual little roll forms in itself an independent part of the bunch within the cigar. form an integral fillerbut rather a perfectly blended compound filler.

In order to render the invention entirely clear reference is had to the accompanying drawing in which:

Figure 1 represents in perspective view an individual little roll of tobacco.

Fig. 2 illustrates in perspective view a plurality of assembled little rolls each made of a different kind of tobacco.

Fig. 3 shows a plurality of such assembled little rolls on a binder ready to be rolled up therein to form a blended bunch.

Fig. 4 illustrates the blended finished cigar 1 with the wrapper around the same.

Similar characters of reference denote like parts in all the figures. v In the drawing in Fig. 1 a single thinlit- The plurality-of little rolls do not As these individual little rolls "are uniformly made a possible twisting of the tle roll of tobacco is shown in perspective view. This little roll a is made of one kind of tobacco while another kind of little rolls is separately made of another kind of tobacco and so forth, each kind preferably by a different operatorwho thus cannot make a mistake. A' lurality of such little rolls, .each compose of a special kind of tobacco is assembled as shown in Fig. 2 wherein four little rolls, b, c, d e, are represented. Such le rolls,when assembled, is placedupon a binder as shown in Fig. 3 wherein six thin little rolls, '7, g,.h, i, 7', k, are shown resting on the binder Z. The plurality of thin littlerollsthen is rolled up into the binder to form a bunch which then contains various kinds of tobacco with their various characteristic properties as to flavor, taste and aroma. Each bunch so formed is then surrounded by a wrapper m in the usual manner for the purpose of completing the cigar.

In the described manner three, four, five and even inore little rolls, each composed of a different kind (or quality) of tobacco may be assembled to form a bunch, usually by means of one binding leaf. However if desired two or more binding leaves may be em ployed to form the bunch with the thin little rolls. The assembled thin little rolls may be formed into any desired shape of cigar. In Fig. 4: of the drawing a cigar of the so called perfect/o shape is shown for example.

In the described manner an improved blended cigar is produced as to flavor, taste and'aroma as well as to uniform burning and drawing during smoking the cigar. At the same time the method of blending the cigars has been improved and simplified and mistakes in blending the various kinds of tobacco during manufacture are prevented.

I claim as my invention:

1. As a novel article of manufacture a blended cigar having a compound filler composed of a plurality of thin rolls, each of said rolls being made of one kind or quality of tobacco and at least one of which rolls is made of a different kind or quality of tobacco from at least one other of said rolls, said rolls being assembled Within a Wrapper and in the shape of a cigar.

2. A process of manufacturing blended cigars which comprises separately preparing thin rolls each composed of a single kind or quality of tobacco, selecting a number of such rolls, including a plurality of kinds or qualities of tobacco, said number of rolls being sufiicient in amount to form the filler of a cigar, and assembling the same substantially parallel to one another to form the filler of a cigar, and thereafter completing the manufacture in the usual manner by the application of the wrapper structure.

Signed at New York, N. Y., this 23rd day of May, 1916.

HENRY ANTON BOOK. 

